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Before she died, Erma Jennings gave her grandson Maurice a choice: inherit the family farm or her biscuit recipe. He took the recipe, using it to launch Biscuitville Inc., a [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-Traditional innerspring bedding manufacturers have stirred to life with some highly imaginative specialty beds, as witnessed during July's Las Vegas Market. No one is abandoning the innerspring category, [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-HFN's Top 10 list of mattress retailers contains a variety of store types, personalities and merchandise. Represented in this list are furniture stores, department stores and sleep shops. [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-Move over, ready-to-assemble. Hello, easy-to-assemble. This category has quietly been evolving from the RTA of yore's lengthy instructions, multitude of nuts, cams, dowels and brackets to ETA's well-designed [...]

Byline: Karl Kunkel, Jo Fleischer LAS VEGAS-In just three markets over one year, the Las Vegas Market has seriously changed the roadmaps and schedules of rival markets and gotten several [...]

Many consumers are embracing the all-natural, chemical-free movement. Angela Owen, owner of Suite Sleep, a Boulder, Colo., wholesaler and e-tailer of organic and chemical-free bedding, has concerns about the choices [...]

What's new and hot in Vegas? Forget about condos, casinos or shops-this summer, it's the furniture that's making news. Once again, InFurniture highlights the most compelling style directions that are [...]

Seek and ye shall find. But you may have to seek a bit more than usual if you're looking for bedding sources at this month's Las Vegas Market. The show [...]

LAS VEGAS-The Las Vegas Market, which opens this week, has quickly and deservedly acquired the reputation as 'the' bedding market, thanks to a wide range of products and the efforts [...]

Mattress sales for 2005 enjoyed another respectable increase, with retail sales reaching $8 billion-up from $7.5 billion in 2004-a 7 percent spike, according to exclusive HFN research. More retailers are [...]

Byline: Karl Kunkel Never underestimate the power of a name-especially that of a celebrity. Some bedding manufacturers teaming up with high-profile personalities have been enjoying positive exposure to consumers that [...]

ENCINO, Calif.-Paul Reitzin, founder of Studio RTA, is back in the ready-to-assemble furniture business. Reitzin had sold his contemporary RTA furniture import business three years ago to Sauder Woodworking Co. [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-Some department stores have arisen from their slumber and taken steps to keep their mattress departments vibrant. They are hoping to stem a gradual slide in which other [...]

NEW YORK- Thomas O'Brien at Target, Chris Madden for J.C. Penney, Martha Stewart at Kmart: Exclusive, licensed home brands are dominating shelf space at retail today. While the effectiveness of [...]

JESSUP, Md.-As Michael Zippelli sees it, the Dormia game plan is on course and coming into its own. According to Zippelli, president and chief executive officer of this Maryland-based mattress [...]

ARCHBOLD, Ohio-Sauder Woodworking Co. said it will merge the sales and marketing operations of Studio RTA with those of Sauder's ready-to-assemble furniture business unit. Studio RTA, a contemporary RTA importer [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-Ready-to-assemble dining furniture has progressed enough in style and quality to where it can now sit with the grown-ups. RTA is now part of the dining ritual of [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-Ready-to-assemble furniture manufacturers enhanced their products' styling, broadened price points and increased the range of items available at High Point's furniture market. But not everyone took advantage of [...]

With so many shows to choose from across the globe, three Asian countries-the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia-are working hard to make their home furnishings trade shows and their domestically made [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-With the rapidly growing Las Vegas Market breathing down its neck, the High Point International Home Furnishings Market Authority has hired a new president to shift to a [...]

LOS ANGELES-Mattress Gallery, a 57-store retail bedding chain in Southern California, has become the newest franchisee of the New York-based 1-800-Mattress organization. James Ristas, president of the Los Angeles-based Mattress [...]

LAS VEGAS-The Las Vegas Market is shaping up to be much more than the regional market that many industry watchers had predicted, and those in the bedding and futon arena [...]

TUPELO, Miss.-The Tupelo Furniture Market, which runs here from Feb. 22 to 25, has maintained its footing as a strong regional show for upholstery and popularly priced home furnishings. But [...]

LAS VEGAS-Two days into the first January Las Vegas Market, some exhibitors were already talking about heading home. Not because they were unhappy, but because they had already written enough [...]

The Tupelo Furniture Market has maintained its footing as a strong regional show for upholstery and popularly priced home furnishings. But the Las Vegas market has been a reality check [...]

The Las Vegas Market is quickly gaining a reputation as a hot bedding market. Last July's inaugural show, with its wide range of traditional innerspring mattresses and specialty bedding, pleasantly [...]

Byline: Karl Kunkel HIGH POINT, N.C.-Lackluster was the way many retailers and manufacturers described 2005. They are determined not to have a repeat of that in 2006, so the wheels [...]

Byline: Karl Kunkel TORONTO-Many Canadian manufacturers have become alarmed over the proliferation of low-priced home furnishings merchandise flooding the Canadian market from China. And they want tariffs enacted to quell [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-Mattress ticking is the Western Union of the bedding industry -- it sends a monster message to the consumer. Ticking, or the mattress cover, as some now call [...]

Byline: Karl Kunkel HIGH POINT, N.C.-Perhaps it was the pajama-clad woman with her hair in rollers, or the flock of those cute pink Serta sheep. Either way, the bedding department [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-With foam prices escalating and supplies questionable, bedding exhibitors at the International Home Furnishings Market here did their best to put a happy face on the problem. 'Bedding [...]

Byline: Karl Kunkel HIGH POINT, N.C.-O'Sullivan Industries, a major manufacturer of ready-to-assemble furniture, has filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the [...]

Byline: Karl Kunkel HIGH POINT, N.C.-Manufacturers of ready-to-assemble furniture have gone out of their way to make it easy for consumers to understand their products and for retailers to sell [...]

Byline: Karl Kunkel HIGH POINT, N.C.-Get traditional innerspring mattresses back in the spotlight. That's the goal of two former Serta executives who have founded the National Mattress Council, an association [...]

The stories abound in business of grave warnings about not 'getting involved' with anyone at work. But what happens when a married couple takes the plunge and starts a business [...]

Byline: Karl Kunkel HIGH POINT, N.C.-Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have long moved on, but well-known home manufacturers that use cushioning foam are still reeling from the storms' devastating effects. Several [...]

Brands carried: 'Sealy, Stearns & Foster, Simmons, Serta, Masterpiece, Spring Air, Tempur-Pedic, King Koil... We are all about selection!' Size of bedding department: 8,500 square feet Highest price point: $3,000 [...]

Byline: Karl Kunkel LAS VEGAS-The Better Sleep Council has chosen a narrow approach rather than a wide-angle tactic for a five-year consumer education plan that it will formally launch in [...]

HIGH POINT-'Keep it simple, stupid' is a mantra that most designers of ready-to-assemble furniture probably keep near their sketchpads and drafting tables. With competition being what it is today, if [...]

LAS VEGAS-A federal flammability standard for mattresses will likely be enacted in early 2007, it was announced during a seminar at the 90th industry conference of the International Sleep Products [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-Branding and brand loyalty among consumers are powerful incentives when it comes to purchasing mattresses. Because consumers don't buy mattresses very often, they frequently have to rely on [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-Earlier this summer, an elderly woman with severe sleeping problems asked Bob and Deana Hand, owners of Downtown Furniture Emporium in St. Joseph, Mo., for the right mattress. [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-Bedding was a consistent, solid performer in a growing range of retail categories last year. And the competition is getting tougher. The top five mattress retailers are all [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-The specialty sleep and futon categories have come front-and-center in the eyes of progressive retailers -- thanks in part to mainstream bedding manufacturers. And nowhere was that more [...]

Byline: Karl Kunkel SAN FRANCISCO-Forget plastics. Private investment firms are increasingly thinking of another word: mattresses. National Bedding Co., the controlling licensee of Serta International, the third- largest mattress manufacturer, [...]